Flying Torpedo by hylajaponica

This fictitious anti-ship guided missile named "Shōryū" is a special in a alternate history novel "Hasha no Senjin" written by Japanese science fiction writer Kōshū Tani. This novel focuses on the military of fictitious Imperial Japan, that discovered and captured Daqing oilfield in 1931.

RJAmakusa Featured By Owner Mar 8, 2018

I wish there was more Sci-Fi/Alternate history focusing on Imperial Japan. Everyone knows what the Nazis did, but not many people are as Familiar with the atrocities the Japanese committed on Asia.

katouhayato Featured By Owner Apr 24, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Such awesome work, I wish I could draw aircraft like you do! Also, correct me if I am wrong (I probably am, identifying cars is what I'm better at) but is that a B6N as well?

hylajaponica Featured By Owner May 3, 2013

Thank you for the comment!
Yeah, Nakajima B6N Tenzan!

roooooooost Featured By Owner Mar 29, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Coll alternative!

Halfwiccan Featured By Owner Mar 24, 2012

Something like "Tiny Tim", I suppose?

Talking about fictional Japan aircraft, what do you think about this one: [link]

hylajaponica Featured By Owner Mar 24, 2012

Yes, they have many points of likeness, such as an aim (to attack ships outside of their anti-air defense) or warhead (250 kg). But Shōryū has easy guiding systems using radar wave receiver.

I love Betty!! and the shape of B4M4 is cool.

But P1Y is more better as a base plane for jet propulsion because it was designed for high speed.

Tora044 Featured By Owner Mar 23, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Wow this is a awesome and interesting picture, would definitely make the Nakajima types more effective.

It's strange though I had thoughts before of how history would be changed if a anti-ship missile armed TU-95 could be sent back in time to the WW2 era.

hylajaponica Featured By Owner Mar 24, 2012

Yeah, WWII was a long and large war but it was "only" six years for research and development.
So there were many too-late weapons.

Thanks for comment!

Tora044 Featured By Owner Mar 24, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

No prob, my favorite Japanese paper project was the J7W jet interceptor.

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Not sure if you have seen that site but it's a interesting one, the Germans had some paper projects way ahead of their time.

Would definitely be interested in finding Hasha no Senjin, though not sure if it would be translated in english or not.

hylajaponica Featured By Owner Mar 24, 2012

Yeah~, the style of Shinden especially side air intakes is deeply associated with jet propulsion.
German paper projects were achieved in USA and USSR in a sense.

Unfortunately "Hasha no Senjin" is not translated into English.
But you can read other works written by Kōshū Tani on web.
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Those two short stories were translated into English by volunteers.